Lawrence Kestenbaum

Lawrence (Larry) Kestenbaum

Name: Lawrence (or Larry) Kestenbaum

Washtenaw County Clerk and Register of Deeds, elected November 2004, in office since January 1, 2005. See also KestenbaumCampaign.com.

Creator of The Political Graveyard web site.

Resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan; former resident of East Lansing, Michigan.

Attorney; member, State Bar of Michigan

Former Washtenaw County Commissioner (2000-02)

Former Ingham County Commissioner (1983-88)

Former member (1993-99) and chair (1997-98), Ann Arbor Historic District Commission

Former member, board of directors, Cyberspace Communications, Inc. (Grex)

Former member, board of directors, Arbornet, Inc. (M-Net)

Former membership coordinator, Ten Pound Fiddle, East Lansing.

Workshop alumnus (1975), Arcosanti
Member, Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor
Member, Michigan Political History Society
Member, Pittsfield Union Grange #882

Member, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Member, Amnesty International
Age 55. Married; one daughter. Jewish. Democrat.

Photo courtesy Ann Arbor Chronicle

Interests:

Politics; demography; public health; local history; botany; folk music; place names; contradancing; cats; octagonal houses; given names; ethnic food; city planning; genealogy; science fiction; historic preservation; restaurants; cemeteries; railroads; architecture; industrial archeology; "fuzzy logic"; Yiddish; Michigan; civil liberties; Balkans; telephone history; courthouses; graphic design; street names; elevators; urban legends; open-air markets

Some writers, thinkers, creators and doers
whose work I generally admire and support:

Christopher Alexander; Russ Feingold; Douglas R. Hofstadter; Ada Louise Huxtable; Molly Ivins; Christopher Jencks; Ben Katchor; Patrick Leahy; Joshua Micah Marshall; Robert Morgenthau; Salman Rushdie; Oliver Sacks; Bruce Schneier; Paolo Soleri; Paul Starr; John Paul Stevens; Studs Terkel; Edward R. Tufte; Elie Wiesel; Garry Wills; James Q. Wilson; William Julius Wilson.

Memorial division: Roger Baldwin (1884-1981); Richard Feynman (1918-1988); R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983); Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926); Erving Goffman (1922-1982); Jane Jacobs (1916-2006); Aldo Leopold (1887-1948); Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003); Lewis Mumford (1895-1990); Mike Royko (1932-1997); Benjamin Spock (1903-1998); Morris Udall (1922-1998); John Voelker/"Robert Traver" (1903-1991); William H. Whyte (1917-1999).

Some others whose work I generally deplore and oppose:

John Ashcroft; Mary Bono; Ann Coulter; Jack Kevorkian; Charles Murray; Herbert Muschamp; Rush Limbaugh; Antonin Scalia.

Some favorite buildings:

Hotel St. Benedict Flats, Chicago IL; TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport, New York NY; Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia PA; Parking Ramp No. 10, East Lansing MI; Guardian Building, Detroit MI; Pennsylvania Station (demolished 1963-66), New York NY; Second Wells Hall (demolished 1966), Michigan State University, East Lansing MI; New Haven Line signal towers, NY-CT; University of Michigan Law Quadrangle, Ann Arbor MI; Masonic Temple, Detroit MI; Lyndhurst, Tarrytown NY; Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady NY; Octagonal House near Homer MI; State Capitol Building, Lansing MI; A. D. White House, Cornell, Ithaca NY.

Some unfavorite buildings:

Stamford Train Station, Stamford CT; Capitol Complex, Lansing MI; Accident Fund Building, Lansing MI; Empire State Plaza, Albany NY; University Hospital, Ann Arbor MI.

Music likes:

Wild Asparagus; Tom Waits; Oyster Band; Counting Crows; Claudia Schmidt; Chuck Brodsky; Beausoleil; Stan Rogers; Joel Mabus; David Byrne; J.S. Bach; Bob Dylan; Scott Joplin; Greg Brown; Bob Baldori.

Some Favorite Movies:

The Accidental Tourist. Annie Hall. Brazil. Casablanca. Dr. Zhivago. Down By Law. A Mighty Wind. Tampopo. Wings of Desire/Der Himmel über Berlin.

Comic Strips I Read:

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer; Bizarro; This Modern World; Dilbert; Doonesbury.

Personal Web Sites/Pages:

The Political Graveyard, a database of political history and cemeteries.
Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery: a rich harvest of criminal creativity from my email
Given Names, with ranking of top ten names by gender for each year of birth, 1900-1977.
Historic Cemetery Resources: links to sites on history and preservation and to sites about specific cemeteries.
Courthouses, City Halls, Capitols: links to history and image sites.
Octagonal Houses and other polygonal, round, oval and star-shaped buildings.
Elevators: links, history, humor, elevator accidents and safety.
Essays and other writings (on this site and elsewhere):
- Postings to RISKS Digest (ACM Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems):
  - Vote counting problems - experience in Michigan (RISKS 9.50, Dec 1989)
  - Response from Cambridgeshire Constabulary (RISKS 15.61, Mar 1994)
  - Risks of vote fraud (RISKS 16.22, Jul 1994)
  - Watergate and erasure (RISKS 17.52, Dec 1995)
  - Calendar software and departed employee (RISKS 21.54, Jul 2001)
- Brief History of Street Naming in America
- "Going Postal"? Some thoughts about postal workers
- Sentencing of Robert T. Morris, Jr. (May 1990)
- May 9, 1998: an account of serving as a peacekeeper in the midst of people who desperately want to riot.
- Rant about "ugly buildings" (quoted in full by Gregory Hlatky in his blog, "A Dog's Life", May 4, 2002)
- Polygon, the Dancing Bear: my weblog, with occasional notes on politics, history, architecture, and the life of a county clerk
My pages elsewhere:
- Wikipedia User page.
- Ebay AboutMe page.
- LiveJournal blog.

Several Old Friends I'd Like To Hear From:

Mark Merlanti. Jonathan Robie. Gregg Cirielli. Mike Rindner. George Nowak. Jim Grossfeld. Mike Lenz (Michael Burr Lenz). Susan Evans. Zachary Levine. Haley Bamman. Mark Jaede. Lynn M. P. Cedarstaff. Jon Rehmus. Scott Fannin "Mole". Pete Fleszar. Anne Gordon. Diane Savereide. Frank Smith. Doug Price. Linda Ewing. Lana Gokey. And many others (you know who you are!).

Send personal mail to kestenbaum at gmail dot com; send Political Graveyard related mail to political.graveyard at gmail dot com.

This page was created in 1996; last revised, October 25, 2010. This work is © 1996-2010 Lawrence Kestenbaum, and is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.

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	Name: Lawrence (or Larry) Kestenbaum Washtenaw County Clerk and Register of Deeds, elected November 2004, in office since January 1, 2005. See also KestenbaumCampaign.com. Creator of The Political Graveyard web site. Resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan; former resident of East Lansing, Michigan. Attorney; member, State Bar of Michigan Former Washtenaw County Commissioner (2000-02) Former Ingham County Commissioner (1983-88) Former member (1993-99) and chair (1997-98), Ann Arbor Historic District Commission Former member, board of directors, Cyberspace Communications, Inc. (Grex) Former member, board of directors, Arbornet, Inc. (M-Net) Former membership coordinator, Ten Pound Fiddle, East Lansing. Workshop alumnus (1975), Arcosanti Member, Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor Member, Michigan Political History Society Member, Pittsfield Union Grange #882 Member, National Trust for Historic Preservation Member, Amnesty International Age 55. Married; one daughter. Jewish. Democrat.
Photo courtesy Ann Arbor Chronicle